Opinion: Expanding Covid Outbreaks Will Make Balancing Control and Economic Growth Tougher

In the past two years, China’s vigorous policies effectively controlled the spread of Covid-19 in many cities. How great an impact did these policies have on the economy? Which economic activities have been more severely affected and which have been relatively less affected? How can the country balance the relationship between epidemic control and stable growth in the future? The outbreak that started in December 2021 in Xi’an may shed some light.